I'm fairly new to crochet. I'm trying to do hats in the round. When I get to the end of the round and slip stitch, I get this horrible hole. How do I do this to transition rounds and still look smooth? Is there any tutorials or videos that you could recommend? I looked at Mikey Sellick's (The Crochet Crowd) Curtzy crochet tutorials on Youtube. He makes it look easy but my transitions look big enough to drive a truck through. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Are you familiar with magic circle for starting the hat? Here' a tutorial, not exactly the way I learned it, but it looks pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjYPFBP85c There should be other possible videos to check out when you get there.

I just looked at your christening gown. Anyone who can make that will be able to master the slip stitch in crochet. Hang in there, you'll get it.

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Sometimes people use a shortened stitch for the first stitch of a round. So if you're using dc, you would ch 2 rather than ch 3, and if you're using hdc, you would just ch 1 rather than ch 2. Obviously, though, this doesn't work too well if you're using sc all the way around.

Are you familiar with magic circle for starting the hat? Here' a tutorial, not exactly the way I learned it, but it looks pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjYPFBP85c There should be other possible videos to check out when you get there.

I just looked at your christening gown. Anyone who can make that will be able to master the slip stitch in crochet. Hang in there, you'll get it.

Sometimes people use a shortened stitch for the first stitch of a round. So if you're using dc, you would ch 2 rather than ch 3, and if you're using hdc, you would just ch 1 rather than ch 2. Obviously, though, this doesn't work too well if you're using sc all the way around.